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'Wrecking at the Bahama Islands. Letter from the Hon. William Marvin...'

Pamphlet: 'Wrecking at the Bahama Islands. Letter from the Hon. William Marvin, to His Excellency Rawson W Rawson, C.B...suggesting a mode of systematizing the business of wrecking', New York, 1867

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ID:	MLN/199/62
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Milne, Alexander
Date made:	1867-01-01 - ?; 1867-03- 1867
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Manuscript 'Arctic Expedition. Further papers and correspondence in continuation of Parliamentary Papers of 1875'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/1) Admiralty pamphlet. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/2) 'On the Introduction and Progressive Increase of Screw Propulsion in Her Majesty's Navy'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/3) Pamphlets regarding disease outbreaks at sea. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/4&6) 'Reports of the Admiralty Torpedo Committee with reference to the Defence of Ships against Offensive Torpedoes'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/5) 'Report on the Crime and Punishment in the Navy, in the year 1863'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/7) 'Report on the Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/8) 'South Africa. Despatches from the Commodore at the Cape of Good Hope...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/9) 'Further Correspondence...Naval Brigades...Zululand.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/10) 'A Memoir of the Hydrographical Department of the Admiralty'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/11) 'Address by His Royal Highness the Prince Consort'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/12) 'On Some Recent Designs for Ships of War for the British Navy, armoured and unarmoured'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/13) 'On the Fighting Power of the Merchant Ship in Naval Warfare'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/14) 'On Coast Fog-Signals. A lecture delivered at the Royal United Service Institution'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/15) 'Bermuda Pocket Almanack'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/16) 'The Supply of British Seamen, Merchant Seamen. Report of the Assistant Secretary...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/17) 'On the American System of Turret Ships'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/18) 'Description of a View of the City of Sebastopol and the surrounding fortification'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/19) 'An Essay on Steam Tactics'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/20) 'The Canadian Almanac...1860'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/21) 'The Case of the Captains Royal Navy, Retired from Commanders'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/22) 'On the Value of Fortresses & Fortified Positions in Defensive Operations: An Essay'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/23) 'Naval Policy. A Speech delivered in the House of Commons, on the 21 March, 1867...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/24) 'The Naval Power of England. A Speech...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/25) 'Letters on Slavery on the South-East Coast of Africa (Zanzibar)'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/26) Pamphlet: by Lt-Col Clarke, (see Captain Richards). (Manuscript) (MLN/199/27) 'An Account of the Observations Recently made by the Corporation of the Trinity House...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/28) 'Sail System: from the "Text Book" to the Turret and Tripod Systems of Captain Coles...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/29) 'The Conservatives of our Wood Walls and Shipping, against any Enemies whatever...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/30) 'Speeches by the Right Hon. H.T.L. Corry...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/31) 'Cox's Companion to the Family Medicine Chest'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/32) 'Extracts from the four last chapters of Admiral Jurien de la Gravière's book...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/33) 'What our Transports did in the Crimea'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/34) 'Flotilla, Coast and Harbour Defence. The Gunboat of the Future'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/35) 'On the Amount and Changes of the Polar Magnetism...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/36) A Few Words of Advice to the Mariners of England and Enterprising Youths...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/37) 'Naval Construction. A fourth letter to the Right Hon. Sir George Cockburn...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/38) 'Naval Ordnance'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/39) 'Reflections on the Navy. Translated from the French'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/40) 'Reflections on Sir John Franklin's Expedition'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/41) 'Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/42) 'Further Correspondence respecting the Affairs of South Africa...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/43) 'Preliminary and Further Reports of the Royal Commissioners...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/44) 'On Screw-Ship Steerage.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/45) 'Speeches of Hon. C R D Hanbury-Tracey M.P. and Thomas Brassey, Esq., M.P...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/46) 'Report on the subject of Wreck and Salvage on the Coast of Kent'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/47) 'The Channel Tunnel'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/48) 'Our Naval Defences and the Necessity and Cost of a Channel Fleet'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/49) 'Speech of Rear-Admiral Sir John Hay, Bart...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/50) 'Text Book to the Turret and Tripod Systems of Captain Cowper P Coles...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/51) 'The Education and Training of Naval Officers'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/52) 'Remarks on the Inefficiency of the Steam Navy for General Service and the Purposes of War'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/53) 'Speech of the Right Hon. George Ward Hunt, MP...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/54) 'Inglefield's new Hydraulic Steering Apparatus...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/55) 'Means of Screw-Ship Steerage, and a description of the Hydrostatic Steering-Gear...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/56) 'South Africa and its Diamonds'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/57) 'The Great Cannon of Muhammad II (AD 1464)...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/58) 'The Story of the Franklin Search illustrative of the Franklin Relics...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/59) 'An Appeal to the British Nation on Behalf of the Mercantile Marine' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/60) 'Remarks on the English Channel Ports of Portsmouth and Plymouth and their Arsenals'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/61) 'Wrecking at the Bahama Islands. Letter from the Hon. William Marvin...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/62) 'Remarks on the Slave Trade and African Squadron'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/63) 'Report on Matters Connected with Shipping at Mauritius'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/64) 'Report upon the Establishments and Vessels of the Indian Marine'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/65) 'Steering and Sounding', Sir Alexander Milne, Kingston, Jamaica'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/66) 'The Naval Expenditure from 1860-1866, and its results'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/67) 'The Newfoundland Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1863'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/68) Ordnance. Palliser Converted Cast Iron Rifled Nuzzle Loading Guns'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/69) 'State of the Navy. Speech delivered in the House of Commons'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/70) 'Adam Sedgwick. [New Biographical Series No.88]'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/71) 'The Provisional Wesleyan Almanack for 1863.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/72) 'Further Experiments on the More Important Physiological Changes...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/73) 'Descriptive Plan and Explanatory Key to the View of the Sailing of the British Portion...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/74) 'Reasons for an Enquiry into the position of the Executive Officers of the Royal Navy'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/75) 'Report on Nitro-Glycerine. Issued by the Association for the Protection of Commercial...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/76) 'Report on Passive Obstructions for the Defence of Harbours...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/77) 'A Retrospect: embracing a page in naval history'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/78) 'Report on the Maritime Canal connecting the Mediterranean...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/79) 'A Short Treatise on the Deviation of the Mariner's Compass'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/80) 'Alphabetical List of the Members and Committee of the Royal Naval Club...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/81) 'Remarks on the Three Naval Reserves of Seamen...'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/82) 'The Higher Education of Naval Officers...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/83) 'Speeches of Joseph D'A Samuda Esq., MP.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/84) 'Report on Spontaneous Combustion of Coal in Ships'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/85) 'On Structures for Carrying Heavy Ordnance.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/86) 'On Fuel. A lecture delivered to the Operative Classes at Bradford...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/87) 'New Mode of Ship-building: combining Strength and Economy with Facility of Construction'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/88) 'Delta of the Nile. An Investigation of the Effects of the Prevailing Wave Influence...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/89) 'The Combined "End-On" and Broadside Principle versus the "Turret".' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/90) 'Our Great Peril if War overtakes us with our Fleet Deficient in Number, Structure, and Armament'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/91) 'A System of General Night Signals for the use of H.M. Ships and Squadrons...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/92) 'On Compass Adjustment in Iron Ships, and on a new Sounding Apparatus'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/93) 'The Tribune Almanac and Political Register for 1863.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/94) 'Gibraltar: is it worth holding? and Morocco'. (Manuscript) (MLN/199/95) 'On the Course of Study in the Royal Naval College, Greenwich...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/96) 'The Defence of the Channel Tunnel...' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/97) 'Speeches of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Wood, Bart., M.P.' (Manuscript) (MLN/199/98)

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